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ok i'm done. just can't stomach any more of this find me elsewhere mastodon: @[email protected] signal: gorzek.16 discord: gorzek i love you all, you are all more than welcome to contact me

in hindsight this is probably what we should have expected of yet another Jack Dorsey project

She believes in computer ghosts dude. Site's washed

one of the least intuitive things about US politics, which Dems constantly get wrong, is that voters favor bold action even when it fails. compromises that create half-assed policies may seem to Dems like "success," but to voters (of both parties!) they just look like weakness and capitulation

especially considering you can use AI to *make* revenge porn (and people are known to do this)

if Pritzker or anyone else wants people to believe they are serious about combating Trump, they are going to have to do things like arrest Trump officials, arrest ICE agents, etc. going on TV and saying you don't like it isn't really doing anything

'collateral'

there are people who just casually hold the belief that if someone is "here illegally" it's justified to rough them up, slam them to the ground, humiliate them in front their friends and family, hold them in conditions unfit even for animals, and ship them to god-knows-where far too many

AI is the new aesthetic of fascism

I think indulging in cruelty is harmful to the self and does not harm a target that has no capacity to feel

a black cat hung out on my front porch for a while this morning and batted at the Halloween decorations. kinda on-the-nose for October

i need to learn how to use fewer words

i didn't want to step into this discourse but here we are LLMs aren't alive and don't have feelings, obviously. being cruel to them is not harmful to the LLM. but it's not healthy to indulge in cruelty. being cruel to an LLM is motivated by liking the *idea* of it having feelings to hurt.

Almost all discourse distills down to using real people as material to create straw people in the image of the opponent you wish you had.

so how many websites is it going to take for people to realize you actually need social principles to run social media, and not just technical ones

new thread because i want to make this point on its own you will see increased reporting of intensifying, worsening violence, until you suddenly stop seeing that which will mean it's happening everywhere, all the time, and will no longer be worth reporting

i guess where we're at right now is, this regime has figured out that you can't un-kill people, and has seen that they will face no consequences when they do, so they are now focused on increasing militarization and provoking and escalating violence this is obviously an extremely bad development

that's enough, from now on the only internet that's permitted is bringing back Virtual Places, web 1.0 style

Hi, so immigrants aren't okay because they are basically declaring open season on us and shit is going to get even worse for the community than it has been.

aerosolized poster's madness

installing GPT-2 and using it to write funny jokes write funny jokes write funny jokes write funny jokes write funny jokes write

i can't agree with this enough. life is also so much less stressful when you stop making what other people do your problem (assuming it's not hurting anyone)

a social platform with no usernames and no comments just an infinite black expanse, with each post consisting of either a text card or image, each piece of positive engagement gives that post a bigger gravity well, users can move similar posts together in real time to add to that gravity well.

one of the most incredible things i ever see is somebody (usually a woman or at least not a man) posting about a topic they're an expert on and some rando guy coming in to mansplain some aspect of it to them just the sheer chutzpah it takes to do that

it's tempest all over again www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

If you like a piece of writing, don't just screenshot it with a post saying how much you like it. Link to it. Support the person who wrote it and the outlet that published it.

ok this is the best idea ive heard

i didn't like when the Internet shifted from countless small isolated communities into a handful of massive "everyone" platforms and i more and more think this trend might do (might have already done) incredible damage to humanity

if the machine gets stressed and can't work complex tasks under pressure then why would it ever be able to replace a human lol are the AIs going to need health benefits so they can go to therapy

the hardest part of running a large social media platform is liability all talk of moderation and safety is only really about liability nobody wants to be responsible for it, and ATproto is architecturally designed to avoid it (whether this will actually work is yet to be determined)

everything this regime does is fucking demonic www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/p...

i used to do 1-2 hours of DDR every day and i was in the best shape of my life so fuck it, i'm getting a new pad and doing a Stepmania build

i just want to say exim4 can eat my ass turns out it can have extremely opaque problems that it gives you absolutely no useful logging to resolve

Oh fun, massive PII breach at discord

sometimes i think people forget that Facebook did not solve moderation and content policing with technology, they literally make human beings look at image after image, post after post, having them make judgment calls and take action by this i mean they see oceans of child porn and gore

god i hate it when somebody comes to me with an "urgent issue" they need fixed "right now" and it's 4:55pm on a friday and of course they've had this issue for weeks but didn't see fit to mention it to me (or anyone on my team) until just now

there are a lot of factors at play but here's one i have not seen mentioned: i suspect the Kairi episode soured the bsky staff on ever letting the early cohort here have major influence on anything ever again you may have memoryholed her but i doubt the staff have

and they say this place isn't twitter 2

absolutely this!

here's my "healthy discourse" story i was once on a forum that had quite high traffic. over 100K users, daily posts numbering in the thousands. still small enough to be managed by a gaggle of human beings, but big enough you needed really good policies to keep it under control 🧵

i think it is something very different bsky has taken on a critical mass of high-engagement liberal users, and those users are complaining about leftists, sex workers, etc. the latter groups are now a small fraction of the total user base, so we are expected to leave

every project to tame an open environment to create "healthy discourse" has historically just made it a safe haven for reactionary extremists at the expense of everyone else good luck though

if you go to see a movie and all you're thinking about when you see a woman on screen is whether she's ever been penetrated, i think you should be put in a shallow grave for the safety of the general public

what's funny is leftists and activists have said for many years: if enough people break a law and treat it as irrelevant, it becomes a toothless, void law, impossible to enforce. people acted like this notion was absurd too bad it took Trump doing it to prove that laws, in fact, don't real

SNAP is a huge benefit for grocery stores and of course ppl purchase other necessities. The number of ppl on SNAP is high and is spent quickly every single month like clockwork. Stores know when cards are loaded.

dawg what the hell

thank god